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Making Mechanisms: McArdle’s syndrome
Progress in Medicine Conference13th April 2010
University of Bristol
Brendan Clarke
Department of Science and
Technology Studies
UCL
Carl Pappenheim
Technical Consultant
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McArdle’s syndrome
• Rare genetic disturbance in carbohydrate
metabolism
• First described by McArdle [1951]
• Caused by myophosphorylase deficiency
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Mechanisms
• Nodes are the entities
• Edges are the causal
activities of their nodes
• Nodes and edges are
interlevel
• Nodes and edges are
organized together in
some way to do
something
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Philosophical accounts of mechanism
• Machamer, Darden and Craver, 2000
• Craver, 2007
• Glennan, 2002
• Bechtel and Abrahamsen, 2005
• Woodward, 2002
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Philosophical accounts of mechanism
• Machamer, Darden and Craver, 2000
• Craver, 2007
• Glennan, 2002
• Bechtel and Abrahamsen, 2005
• Woodward, 2002
• All, to some degree, have normative aspirations
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Why make mechanisms?
• Understand complex causal relationships
• Track changes in causal understanding
• Identification of interesting features
• Teaching and learning
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Complexity and mechanism
Reproduced without permission from Machamer, Darden and Craver, 2000: 16
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Complexity and mechanism
Reproduced without permission from Craver, 2007: 189
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Complexity and mechanism
Reproduced without permission from Glennan, 2000: 18
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Derived from Chen, 2001: 1537—8
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Complexity?
• Large numbers of activities and entities
• Levels
• Generic versus single-case causes
• Background conditions
• Pathology versus physiology
• Changing knowledge
• Incomplete knowledge
• Stochastic relationships
• Planning and mortal limitations...
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Making mechanisms
• Pen and paper
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Making mechanisms
• By hand
• Using design software (Visio, lovelycharts.com)
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Derived from Chen, 2001: 1537—8
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Making mechanisms
• By hand
• Using design software (Visio, lovelycharts.com)
• A third way...
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The Complex Mechanism Browser
• Text input of causal claims
• Routing etc automated
• Ability to re-use sections of mechanism
• Clear visual differentiation between different
relationships
– Causes - Prevents
– Similar - Dissimilar
– Background condition - Component
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Example
• Based on McArdle’s syndrome
– Manageable literature
– Philosophically, historically and medically interesting
• Constructed from first 8 publications (1951—1961)
• Aim: to explore the chronological development of
causal arguments and their evidence
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McArdle, 1951
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McArdle, 1951
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Schmid and Mahler, 1959a
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Schmid and Mahler, 1959a
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Mommaerts et al, 1959
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Larner and Villar-Palasi, 1959
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Larner and Villar-Palasi, 1959
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Schmid, Robbins and Traut, 1959
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Schmid and Mahler, 1959b
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Schmid and Hammaker, 1961
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Pearson, Rimer and Mommaerts, 1961
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Technology
• Graphviz takes care of aesthetics
• CMB rationalises the data management
• Abstraction is King
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Technology
• Text only appears once
• SQL assigns ID numbers automatically
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Technology
• Tables of numbers link concepts
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Technology
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Technology
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Technology
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Technology
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Technology
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Technology
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Conclusions
• Normative accounts of mechanism must accommodate
complex mechanisms– Complex mechanisms feature in scientific and medical practice
– Complex mechanisms reveal conceptual difficulties in a way that simple
mechanisms do not
• CMB is presented as a means of producing and exploring
such mechanisms– To explore philosophical issues
– As an historical tool
– For use in scientific practice
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Acknowledgements
• Graphviz - http://www.graphviz.org
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McArdle bibliography
• Chen, Y., 2001. Glycogen Storage Disease. In
Scriver CR, et al., eds. 2001. The Metabolic and
Molecular Basis of Inherited Disease. New York:
McGraw-Hill, pp. 1521—51.
• Larner, J. and Villar-Palasi, C. 1959. ―Enzymes
in a Glycogen Storage Myopathy,‖ PNAS. 45(8):
1234—5.
• McArdle, B. 1951. ―Myopathy Due to a Defect in
Muscle Glycogen Breakdown,‖ Clinical Science.
10: 13—33.
• Mommaerts, W.F. et al. 1959. ―A Functional
Disorder of Muscle Associated with the Absence
of Phosphorylase,‖ PNAS. 45(6): 791—7.
• Pearson, C., Rimer, D. and Mommaerts, W.
1961. ―A Metabolic Myopathy Due to Absence of
Muscle Phosphorylase,‖ The American Journal
of Medicine. 30: 502—17.
• Schmid, R. and Hammaker, L. 1961. ―Hereditary
Absence of Muscle Phosphorylase (McArdle's
Syndrome),‖ NEJM. 264: 223—5.
• Schmid, R. and Mahler, R. 1959a. ―Syndrome of
Muscular Dystrophy with Myoglobinuria:
Demonstration of a Glycogenolytic Defect in
Muscle,‖ The Journal of Clinical Investigation.
38(6): 1040.
• Schmid, R. and Mahler, R. 1959b. ―Chronic
Progressive Myopathy with Myoglobinuria:
Demonstration of a Glycogenolytic Defect in the
Muscle,‖ The Journal of Clinical Investigation.
38(11): 2044—58.
• Schmid, R., Robbins, P. and Traut, R. 1959.
―Glycogen Synthesis in Muscle Lacking
Phosphorylase,‖ PNAS. 45(8): 1236—40.
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Mechanism bibliography• Bechtel, W. and Abrahamsen, A. 2005.
―Explanation: A Mechanist Alternative,‖
Studies in History and Philosophy of
Science Part C: Studies in History and
Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical
Sciences. 36(2): 421—41.
• Craver, C. 2007. Explaining the Brain.
Oxford: OUP.
• Glennan, S. 2002. ―Rethinking
Mechanistic Explanation,‖ Philosophy of
Science. 69(S3): 342—53.
• Machamer, P., Darden, L. and Craver,
C.F. 2000. ―Thinking about Mechanisms,‖
Philosophy of Science. 67(1): 1—25.
• Woodward, J. 2002. "What is a
Mechanism? A Counterfactual Account,"
Philosophy of Science. 69(S3): S366—77.